Hippos Born to Run

Hippos Born to Run

Quest giver

Kancana

Location

Thavnair (X:25.3, Y:31.2)

Quest line

Arkasodara Main Quests

Level

80

Required quest

Endwalker

Experience

 224,400-749,595

Gil

 1,495

Previous quest

A Budding Adventure

Next quest

A Pachyderm's Promptitude

Patch

6.15

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Kancana shifts from foot to foot with agitation. Your adventurer senses tingle with the tantalizing taste of a problem to be solved.
※The difficulty of this quest will be synced to your current level.

— In-game description

Rewards

Unlocks

• Arkasodara Daily Quests
• 
  Arkasodara Reputation Up (Friendly)
•   Hasty Hasty Hippos I

Walkthrough

To unlock Arkasodara Daily Quests, players must first complete the tribal quest Hippos Born to Run which requires the level 90 MSQ Endwalker.

Hippos Born to Run can be unlocked by completing A Budding Adventure, which is the conclusion of a split quest line beginning with Aether Current quest Steppe Child and sidequest What's in a Parent.

Quest	Type	Level	Quest Giver	Unlocks	Rewards
Steppe Child		80	Ogul	Aether Current
The Matanga along the Way		80	Kancana
Ogul Repays Her Favors		80	Ogul		2   Amra Salad
The Yedlihmad Hunt		80	Ogul
What's in a Parent		80	Yezahn
Curing What Ails		80	Yezahn
The Sins We Bear		80	Sula
Societal Alchemy		80	Yezahn		2   Wine-dark Soup 2   Glory Be Soup 2   Hamsa Curry 2   Karniyarik 1   Allagan Silver Piece
A Budding Adventure		80	Yezahn

Steps

• Question the residents of Yedlihmad.
• Search for Trna.
• Speak with Kancana.
• Speak with Trna.
• Speak with Trna again.
• Ride the hippo cart to Yedlihmad.
• Speak with Kancana.
• Speak with Trna.

Journal

• Kancana shifts from foot to foot with agitation. Your adventurer senses tingle with the tantalizing taste of a problem to be solved.
  • ※The difficulty of this quest will be synced to your current level.

• According to Kancana, there have been strange reports of hippos running wild on the highroad. In order to make sense of these bizarre sightings, you set out to question the residents of Yedlihmad.
  • ※Please note that the difficulty of this quest has been synced to your current level. Furthermore, you may not proceed with a class or job that is different from when you accepted this quest.

• Your interviews confirm the recent hippo sightings and provide you with some vague intelligence on a delinquent group of Arkasodara refugees. Seeking a clearer image of the situation, you decide to follow up on your most promising lead, a refugee named Trna, who is also in search of hippos around the Perfumed Rise.

• Trna, you discover, is no ordinary refugee─she is the leader of a crew of hippo cart racers, whose reckless riding has been the very talk of the town you came to investigate. Despite an initially intimidating demeanor, Trna expresses her wish to formally apologize for causing trouble, so you accompany her to Yedlihmad to speak with Kancana.

• Trna explains that she and her “associates” hail from Vanaspati. While intimidated by the prospect of attempting to fit in with greater Thavnairian society, Trna nevertheless voices her desire to positively contribute to the community in the wake of the Final Days. At this, you suggest that she and her band of racers make the most of their speedy hippo carts by becoming delivery workers, and in order to introduce Trna to the realities of the job, Kancana tasks you both with delivering a package to the Great Work.

• In an act of hippo-based hospitality, Trna offers you a ride to the Great Work on one of her custom-made carts. There, she experiences the joy of successfully delivering a package firsthand, and is able to ameliorate perceptions of her raucous crew somewhat thanks to your stellar reputation and a convenient misunderstanding.

• While Trna is eager to report back to Kancana, the hippo that pulled your cart needs to rest before taking another journey. In light of this, she sends you back to Yedlihmad first on her prized set of wheels, pulled by her very own partner-in-ride, Saurya.

• Having arrived safely in Yedlihmad with nary a scratch on Trna's prized cart, Saurya trundles away. Hydaelyn's champion though you may be, you must now bear the indignity of walking the several yalms to where Kancana awaits.

• As you are relaying the details to Kancana, Trna arrives. It transpires that delivery work is a challenge that she and her associates would be willing to attempt, although the prospect of building trust still feels daunting. Kancana, ever encouraging of struggling hearts, nominates you as a supporting member of Trna's fledgling organization, and offers to lease Trna's crew the grounds of an old trading post to get started.

• The trading post in question has seen better days, but Trna and her associates get straight to work fixing it up. Rechristening themselves with their old team name, the “Hippo Riders” set their sights on becoming legitimate and trusted delivery workers. As their advisor, help these aspiring deliverers achieve the success and sense of belonging they desire!